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Re: Twitter

Marshall — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:27:24 -0000

Great to see. I love Twitter and am the belief that there's lots of biz model opportunities - though I imagine it will get scooped up by a larger player before one is decided on. Such strong community combined increasingly solid, paradigm shifting functionality makes a sound looking investment to me. Look forward to seeing what you all can do together.

Re: Twitter

Marshall — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:27:24 -0000

Re: Improve Social Media Profile Rankings with Internal Links

Marshall — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:42:29 -0000

Articles like this feed the argument that SEO is full of scumbags and that Social Media Marketing is no different. To be fair I should read some of the other posts here to see if you ever write about providing value through quality content instead of link building b.s. but really - look at yourself, you're telling people it's a good idea to join a bunch of groups in Tribe for the link juice, to fluff up the number of tag pages you put your story about random crap into on Del.icio.us and I don't know how you plan on getting lots of followers on Twitter unless you are counting on an army of scumbags following you in hopes you'll follow them back and you'll all get a bunch of content-free link love. Seriously, why would I want to "rank high for Blockbuster Video"?? If I was making a crass grab for money, I suppose. People need to keep their crass grabs for money out of my social bookmarking services, though - 'cause I go there to find valuable content and connect with other people looking for the same - not to find the network swamped with stuff like this. I make my living finding, producing and guiding other people to high quality content - this post is a good example of "high quality content" all about how to flood useful sites with crap. Come on dude, I bet you're smart enough to get a real job.

Re: Disqus Joins The Battle For Your Blog’s Comments

Marshall — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:49:30 -0000

Testing, testing! Great write up, Nick.

Re: Some Data On MySpace Apps Almost One Week After Launch

Marshall — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:35:09 -0000

MySpace is rolling things out in stages and hasn't done any promotion of the apps to users at all yet. While interesting, I think these numbers probably say more about tech blog readers than MySpace users in general.

Re: Some Data On MySpace Apps Almost One Week After Launch

Marshall — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:07:12 -0000

I take that back, after looking at these a bit more I can see that viral spread is already happening. Top pics app for example notified my friends and sat on my profile, so anybody could be adding it now.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - MyBlogLog API Could Be A Game Changer

Marshall — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:57:22 -0000

I think you hit the nail on the head. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it.

Re: Interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick (Scripting News)

Marshall — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:58:57 -0000

Thanks Dave. The link to the interview with FriendFeed founders that we discussed is http://is.gd/2ab

Re: Interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick (Scripting News)

Marshall — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:45:50 -0000

Bret, that OPML file contains only the feeds that I brought in with me, not the feeds I subscribed to in FriendFeed. I understand that you work with more than just RSS feeds, but I presumed when I read your comment that you meant I could export the feeds of the friends I'm following. That way, the work I put into your service wouldn't be lost if I decided to go to another lifestreaming service. As it is, you're holding all my subscriptions to yourself - creating a barrier to me leaving. Why do that? Why not just win my loyalty through good faith and superior service?

Re: Interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick (Scripting News)

Marshall — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:25:33 -0000

Hey Bret, sorry I left such a hostile comment, I'll have to look at the FOAF file too - I'm sure you know what people would like to take with them if they leave FF. Good luck, M

Re: The Great American Novel in 140 Character Installments - RussellBeattie.com

Marshall — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:53:58 -0000

Sounds funny as hell. I like it.

Re: Is the Web half full or half empty?

Marshall — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:16:14 -0000

Honestly, if a higher percentage than 40% are *reading* blogs, much less ever leaving a single comment, that sounds like substantial engagement to me. Personally I can't stand the things - Perez Hilton is more than enough for me!

Re: Hollywood still looking for online video hits

Marshall — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:30:13 -0000

Humor is probably unique in two ways: it could be the rarest form of high quality content and it's probably the one with the widest appeal as well (even beating sex, I'd argue!) Quality content in general is going to be a sweet spot for sure though. I wonder if video runs a higher risk of angering viewers if standards aren't met - the emotional investment required makes it feel worse if it's bad than skimming boring text content!

Re: Looking a Google gift horse in the mouth

Marshall — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:18:02 -0000

Thanks Mathew! Your opinion means a lot to me and I really appreciate your engagement with this post of mine.

Re: Change #016. Installation tips for v0.33

Marshall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:08:01 -0000

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Re: Change #016. Installation tips for v0.33

Marshall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:14:19 -0000

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Re: Change #016. Installation tips for v0.33

Marshall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:14:24 -0000

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Re: Change #016. Installation tips for v0.33

Marshall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:52:55 -0000

sorry 'bout that!

Re: Alexander H. Williams

Marshall — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:26:11 -0000

wish I could have seen that!

Re: Amazon takes major stake in Wikia

Marshall — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:30:50 -0000

The Armchair GM guys are great - they built quite a good site and community over there. Congrats to them!

Re: All three Democratic presidential candidates support VC tax

Marshall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:41:28 -0000

I read PEHub almost daily and the best I can gather from my shallow understanding is that my understanding is shallow and this is a VERY complicated issue. I'd love to read a good, accessible 101 on this debate.

Re: The latest on Facebook’s German insurgency: A contest about who does good deeds on Facebook

Marshall — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:56:36 -0000

Soon-to-be US House Speaker Dennis Hastert told the Columbian military not to worry about congressional restrictions on US military aid that required them to cut ties to paramilitary squads that cut peoples' heads off with chainsaws in order to soften villages up. He said the restrictions were due to a leftist dominated congress and that he'd work to remove them. See National Security Archives at George Washington University, this post http://tinyurl.com/3ehvc8 Document #52 in particular.

It's no coincidence either. Hastert et al. are in league with those folks who said "I made that food stamp cartoon with Obama, watermelon and chicken because watermelon and chicken are food, that's all!" http://tinyurl.com/49jqj8

These people know exactly what they are doing. What's my point? That I'm not so sure Mark Zuckerberg knows what he's doing.

Re: Testimony of A Twitter Convert

Marshall — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:47:25 -0000

Hey Corvida, thanks for the kind words and nice to make your acquaintance! Keep up the good blogging here, the site looks great. See ya in the tweetosphere!

Re: CommandShift3 - Battle of the Website

Marshall — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:10:53 -0000

Ha ha1 Sorry about that! Yes, isn't that a cool site of sites? Glad you liked it.

Re: Toluu Adds More Features, Helps You Decide How to Subscribe

Marshall — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:17:54 -0000

The UI is still unappealing to me. I'd really like to use Toluu to manage a few thousand feeds but it doesn't feel set up for that. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree and should use it for its intended purpose :)

Re: Capturables from Bad Hair Day #7

Marshall — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:44:22 -0000

Thanks Jos!

Re: mockriot

Marshall — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:01:13 -0000

Congratulations Josh and Kate!!! Way to go on the ring too Josh!

Re: What Is This You Bring My America?

Marshall — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:59:40 -0000

Good post, though I'm afraid that turning back the privitization of state functions is going to be a very difficult sell because of the arguably superior efficacy of the private sector. It's hard to know which approach incurs more waste, less accountability and more opportunity for abuse - isn't it?

I look at Walmart's responses to recent natural disasters as a great example. It's easy (for me at least) to imagine just how bad that could turn out, but it's also hard not to scoff at the public sector's ineptitude.

Re: I pee pee

Marshall — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:42:31 -0000

No, that joke pretty much had to be made. It made me laugh, a lot.

Re: Me = YouTube Pick of the Day

Marshall — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:09:16 -0000

Awesome! That was a particularly good performance and a particularly well lit video too!

Re: Two of My Sites Won Black Blogger Awards

Marshall — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:04:19 -0000

Congratulations, Baratunde! Keep the great news coming. Cheers to your continued success.

Re: Burning Man 2008 Art Theme: American Dream | Laughing Squid

Marshall — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:27:19 -0000

What on earth is wrong with people who think that all dissent is aimed only at the current presidential administration? What on earth is wrong with them?

As for this idea for BM theme, unbelievable. Except it's actually pretty typical, what crap.

Re: Boing Boing Launches Daily Online TV Show: Boing Boing TV

Marshall — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:44:35 -0000

I am beside myself with excitement about this!!

Re: Explaining Blogs and RSS in Plain English

Marshall — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:43:41 -0000

Love these guys and their work. Worth mentioning too that they are so hot they've been hired to make the last several demo videos for Google announcements.

Re: Iran to Kill Bloggers?

Marshall — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:35:01 -0000

Whatever Gregory, go f*ck yourself. I think the video David posted here spells it out pretty well. Imagine any of those kids being executed for what they are doing here. Nobody said Iran wasn't a beautiful country, you creep.

Re: MyBlogLog Recruitment Video

Marshall — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:09:19 -0000

You made that video? Good job! I watched it all on Robbyn Tippins' blog and had no idea. Good stuff, every company ought to be so personalized by online video.

Re: Does Facebook Need A Golden App?

Marshall — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:00:08 -0000

My girlfriend saw the app directory the other day and said "that's all there is?" until she found the vibrating hamster app. That one's a winner.

Re: Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat

Marshall — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:56:05 -0000

Hot stuff.

Re: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy…

Marshall — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:16:34 -0000

i saw rick give a kitten a dirty look once, but other than that i love the guy too. :) his blogging skills are a model for us all

Re: Cheap Dates Episode 5!

Marshall — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:48:11 -0000

So much fun to watch. We've got similar possibilities out here in Portland, but I could watch vids of people living the life in various cities all day long! Have fun with the show!

Re: Childhood 2.0

Marshall — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:08:56 -0000

That's an exchange for the ages - I laughed a bunch.

Re: 2007/02/09/pimp-my-youtube/

Marshall — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:41:24 -0000

Am I the only one tiring of the constant "pimp" references in popular culture? If it's not misogynistic it's undeniably cliche - is it not? And it really is misogynistic.

Re: Dapper Launches DapperFox - RSS Feed from any Website

Marshall — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:12:38 -0000

See also feedfire.com - kinda crude but super fast and easy. I've been using it for a long time.

Re: 2007/03/28/serph/

Marshall — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:56:09 -0000

Mitch, that would be my first request too _ let me filter out certain domains.

Re: 2007/05/21/rootly-relaunch/

Marshall — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:08:59 -0000

I provided consulting services with Rootly when they were planning this relaunch and think it turned out pretty hot. I hadn't seen the dev site in several months and at the time we didn't talk about OpenID (we should have). Founder Mark Daher pinged me today to say it was going live and I didn't even have to try to remember my login - what a simple but joyous thing! I sure wish more companies would do that.

I thought the previous version of Rootly was pretty unexciting, and I wasn't sure they could pull of something very cool - but looking at it now, they did a really great job. Once OPML import is added (any week now they say) I'll be popping a link to Rootly up in my toolbar and using it to search all my favorite feeds.

Re: 2007/05/24/technorati-wtf-lets-give-it-another-chance/

Marshall — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:29:33 -0000

I've just begun to get excited by WTF myself. I agree that it's a pretty cool tool. I'd like to do some real tests to see how much traffic it drives.

Re: 2007/05/24/facebook-f8-live/

Marshall — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:59:46 -0000

I put up a full FAQ about the info we know from being one of the first partners at http://splashcastmedia.com/splashcast-to-be-ava...

Re: WOW: CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million

Marshall — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:10:53 -0000

Pete, iLike is controled by Ticketmaster, eg IAC, so I think they're probably as good as bought. Unless it's investment they want to flip, but I doubt it.

Re: 2007/05/31/attributor/

Marshall — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:28:33 -0000

less opinion plz!

Re: 2007/06/07/yahoo-lgbt/

Marshall — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:44:20 -0000

Ooh, ooh - I want to join the pile-on-Mike party! What a loser! Pete, I think you should add more pink to this blog just to spite Mike and his ilk. Plus it looks nice.

Re: 2007/06/13/comscore-widget-metrix/

Marshall — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:13:31 -0000

I know I love my BlingyBlob! (wtf? gotta look that one up.) good post btw

Re: 2006/11/30/bunnyhero-labs-the-massive-myspace-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of/

Marshall — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:02 -0000

Can you make a Pete Cashmore faced chihuahua? One that reads comments on old posts? lol I kid, I kid.

Re: 33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online

Marshall — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:57:24 -0000

We watch a lot of http://video.stumbleupon.com at our house. And my wonderful employer offers hours of visual media - check out our catalog at http://web.splashcast.net/catalog

Re: 2007/06/19/zoho-meeting/

Marshall — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:59:34 -0000

Come on Zoho crew - give us this cross platform! If Mac users can't use it then every new person you pull in represents a risk that your web conferencing tool will become useless. I know that cross platform web conferencing is easier said than done, but Adobe's done it. Who else?

I hope this is fixed soon, I was excited until I read down to the end of the post. :( Good luck to all at Zoho!

Re: 2007/06/20/blogtv-launches-embeddable-player/

Marshall — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:38:58 -0000

That's a nice looking player. See also the list that Jeremiah Owyang has been keeping of all the companies providing live video http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/05/16/a...

Re: 2007/07/09/the-daily-tube/

Marshall — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:27:54 -0000

Whoever does this right is going to do well, I believe. There's SO much content out there and it takes so much time to find what's good. StumbleUpon video automates and personalizes this process very well, but isn't at all timely as far as I can tell. Good luck to these folks. In the meantime, I'll be getting their email sent to an email to RSS service for sure.

Re: 2007/07/09/gleamd/

Marshall — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:31:02 -0000

These folks are using Twitter really well to promote the private beta. I think it's a neat idea but I hope that a lot will be done to highlight less popular but more interesting people. A lot of potential there. Come to think of it, I think I'll go add a few people now!

Re: 2007/07/23/online-media/

Marshall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:35:29 -0000

Hey hey hey, Pete old buddy - we over at SplashCast would love to be on this list!

Re: 2007/07/23/mister-wong-iphone/

Marshall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:02:12 -0000

Has the company responded at all to criticisms about racial stereotypes? I barely thought about it until I read this post http://snipurl.com/1oo0u at a site called 8Asians

Re: 2007/07/23/mister-wong-iphone/

Marshall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:59:22 -0000

Here's how I understand this issue so far: It seems to me that the site plays on the stereotype of Asians as bookish, smiling, subservient and jabbering in infantile, incomprehensible "ching chong" type language.

Part of this stereotype seems to refer to the idea that Asians can be trusted to keep track of your stuff - like your bookmarks! Related to that is this good quote from the Wikipedia entry for "model minority" - US focused here and just part of the story, but part of it for sure it seems to me.

"While superficially complimentary to Asian Americans, the real purpose and effect of this portrayal is to celebrate the status quo in race relations. First, by over-emphasizing Asian American success, it de-emphasizes the problems Asian Americans continue to face from racial discrimination in all areas of public and private life. Second, by misrepresenting Asian American success as proof that the US provides equal opportunities for those who conform and work hard, it excuses US society from careful scrutiny on issues of race in general, and on the persistence of racism against Asian Americans in particular."

That's the last I'll say about it here though, as it's really not my issue to take on and like I said - I didn't think much of it myself until talking to someone else and reading that post at 8Asians, which, btw I don't think is over the top at all.

Re: 2007/08/01/splashcast-white-label-facebook-app/

Marshall — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:58:52 -0000

Billy, long time no see! thanks for your comment, we're real proud of how slick those skins are for sure. they'll also travel with the player's embed code outside of Facebook and onto any page on the web.

Re: 2007/08/01/gofish-bolt/

Marshall — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:10:57 -0000

Good catch Pete. Gotta remember to go check out Bolt CEO's blog in case there's news on the suit - it's an interesting one.

Re: 2007/08/01/yebotv-slayer/

Marshall — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:53:32 -0000

This does sound very cool, though I haven't been able to listen to Slayer since they were on my headphones for a double root canal. More live streaming video! This one's not yet on Jeremiah's list of live video services - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/05/16/a...

Re: 2007/08/01/youtube-cyberbullying/

Marshall — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:26:34 -0000

Shut down YouTube! Great idea. Teachers are so smart, no wonder all's well in the world.

Re: 2007/08/08/picle-scripps/

Marshall — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:27:07 -0000

Pickle's a good service. Congrats to these guys. Great to see so many acquisitions going on lately, huh?

Re: 2007/08/29/splashcast-upgrade/

Marshall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:29:11 -0000

Thanks for the coverage and screenshots, Kristen! We're way stoked about our new player - we think it combines the best features from a number of other places and some new stuff all put together in a pretty package. Thanks for sharing it with your readers!

Re: 2007/09/09/sclipolive/

Marshall — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:41:20 -0000

It is often said that teaching is where the meat will be in live video. This company's site looks nice and they've got some good partnerships (Wacom, Lulu) I wonder if their video player is embeddable. It's an ugly player and the company name is awful. Good luck to them, sure hope somebody nails this niche and it would be nice to see it be a small player (has Sclipo raised VC money?)

Re: 2007/09/13/splashcast-columbia-records/

Marshall — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:59:25 -0000

Awesome screep capture choice! Thanks for the coverage!

Re: 2007/09/13/splashcast-columbia-records/

Marshall — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:00:28 -0000

Screen, I mean - that picture totally freaked me out and made me lose my ability to type.

Re: Traffic Thursdays | Blog Post of the Day

Marshall — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:27:26 -0000

Thanks Tinu! I'm glad you share my enthusiasm and I really appreciate your kind words of support. Best wishes!

Re: Splashcast Media vs Kyte.tv - The Clean-Cut Handsome Professional vs The Sexy Artist

Marshall — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:07:59 -0000

Well Tinu, once you *grow up* and are ready to come back to the responsible choice - we'll be happy to take you back at SplashCast! :) I kid, I kid - thanks for the kind words and the honest review. I'm sure we'll be passing this one around the office today - and thinking about it a lot after work while we look pensively out over a rocky bluff with the wind blowing briskly through our (application's) ruffled hair. (Is that sexier? ;) I'm trying!)

Take care and have fun with your video publishing!

Re: Gays For Giuliani Releases Their First Ad

Marshall — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:35:57 -0000

This is awfully homophobic and anyone associated with it should be ashamed of themselves.

Re: PostRank filtering for JavaOne BlogCentral 2008

Marshall — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:45:30 -0000

Thanks for the post on this project Ilya and thanks for all you do over there. I love AideRSS! This is just one of so many things I like to use the service for. Keep up the great work.

Re: Storytelling ROI: social engagement metrics for Marketing & Social Media bloggers

Marshall — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:31:46 -0000

This is an interesting list and a great exercise in social media marketing as well! If you displayed those bloggers' names as text instead of in an image they would show up in ego searches and be clickable though. A trackback to their most engaging recent post would also be very effective. What do I know, though, am I on that list? No! lol, good stuff as always though AideRSS folks!

Re: Moving On

Marshall — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:31:52 -0000

Good luck, Chris! I'm sure you'll find more fantastic options than you'll want to choose between. I look forward to seeing what's next!
Cheering for you,
Marshall

Re: Marshall Kirkpatrick On New Media Consulting

Marshall — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:04 -0000

Thanks Chris! What an honor to be mentioned here like this. I really appreciate it. Hope things are going well on your end too and I hope to see you again soon!

Re: Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years

Marshall — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:18 -0000

Looks interesting, but I did find this via Techmeme :)

Re: Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years

Marshall — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:36:33 -0000

I don't know why a post from an indexed source that's linked to by multiple other indexed sources in the requisite timeframe (short) isn't going to appear on techmeme. Especially on a Sunday night. Am I missing something?

Re: Rapleaf wants your email address

Marshall — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:47:38 -0000

Robert, I respectfully disagree with your take on this one. Judi's right, it's not about selling emails - the buyers bring the email adresses they already have and ask Rapleaf "what do you know about these people? are they more likely to be MySpace users or Facebook users?" I think there's some potential for a legitimate business model there, specifically the opposite of "more commercial crap you don’t want." Instead, marketing that's more like Adsense than it is like pop-ups. Hopefully. I wrote about this whole situation at length at http://marshallk.com/rapleaf-and-their-problems

Many of us (you and I included) may be capable of creating social media content that serves marketing goals, but I don't think that will ever make up 100% of the marketing efforts online - not even close. For the rest of the world, data mining grounded in user control of that data (the kind of thing Rapleaf has the potential to facilitate) makes a lot of sense to me.

Rapleaf is guilty of a lot of things, but I disagree with your characterization of them here. I'm really hoping they get it together - and that doesn't preclude selling information to marketers, in my mind.

Re: 7,200 Google Reader lockins

Marshall — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:15:03 -0000

I'm using a FeedBurner feed for my shared items in part because of this. My blog posts and everything I tag in del.ico.us "toshare" are available in http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarshallsBlogAndSha... - if I decide to share with something other than del.icio.us later, I can just point my new tool's rss feed at FeedBurner and not lose any subscribers. The downside is that I don't get the very pretty interface and stats of google reader sharing, though I suppose I could. I prefer netnewswire, fwiw.

Re: Bloglines sucks

Marshall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:41:08 -0000

Fwiw, Google Reader doesn't scale well over 1k feeds and Bloglines is publicly moving to support protocols like OpenID and APML. The way that Ask.com blogsearch leverages Bloglines subscriber numbers to fight spam is another thing Google Reader could learn from. I don't use Bloglines myself (I use Newsgator's NNW on the desktop) but I'm just saying, total Google Reader triumphalism isn't warranted imho.

Re: Facebook and Google join DataPortability.org

Marshall — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:44:22 -0000

Robert, thanks for all the work you've done around this already. Your experimenting with the Plaxo scraper and then doing all that media around it to discuss the issues was great. Very controversial and I don't think there are clear-cut answers but your work was a real service to users in terms of forcing the issue and discussing it articulately.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Marshall — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:54:41 -0000

See also this other post of ours http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/meebo_main... where we ask "Is Meebo really worth a $200m valuation?" and answer "hell yeah, it is." Agreed that this company is really interesting. Thanks for reading RWW, too, Robert.

Re: RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal)

Marshall — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:50:01 -0000

Louis, Google Reader doesn't support authenticated feeds, doesn't allow you to change caching times, checks single-subscriber feeds very rarely, doesn't have a good iPhone reader, gets totally bogged down if you have more than 1k feeds --- for me, that sucks!

Re: Marshall Kirkpatrick Leaves TechCrunch

Marshall — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:44:48 -0000

Thanks Andy! I just may do that. Best wishes, Marshall.

Re: Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools

Marshall — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:27:48 -0000

As someone who also offers to relieve people of their money to set them up with these kinds of services :) I recommend checking out Ask.com blogsearch, which only indexes feeds with a minimum number of Bloglines subscribers for spam control, FeedYes.com for easy but powerful RSS feed creation, FeedDigest for splicing multiple feeds together into one (and filtering for duplicates, like in Yahoo, Google and Topix news search feeds)and GMail for turning email lists into RSS feeds (dedicated account - filter to tags, tags have feeds, add additional filtering as desired).

Definitely some stuff in this post though that I haven't looked at before, will be bookmarking and sharing for sure. Keep up the great work, Andy!

Re: Video of the week: “Bad Sinatra”

Marshall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:41:40 -0000

I miss the the GGang SO much! So does my dog, whom I never walk anymore. I hope this show will improve but it warmed my heart anyway.

Great review btw and welcome to the site!

Re: The New Media Consolidation

Marshall — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:03:50 -0000

Great post. I think you're spot on. I do think, though, that you're missing the subscription/syndication element; TechCrunch has a half mill subscribers, BoingBoing has what 1.5m? That's big stuff, isn't it?

Re your final vision: content producers determining attention sounds like Techmeme.

Re: Digg Is The Apotheosis Of Niche Media

Marshall — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:26:48 -0000

Which of those headlines do you see as pointing to liberal politics?? The political ones all look to me like they'd fit in just fine over at Malkin's HotAir.

Re: ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management

Marshall — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:17:05 -0000

Thanks for the kind words!

Re: CBS-Last.fm: Divvying Up The Proceeds: Founders Take Estimated $114 Million From Sale

Marshall — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:25:01 -0000

Good coverage - otherwise unseen details and humor, PaidContent at its best, thanks.

Re: The Race of Also-Rans: French Video Sharing Site Dailymotion Raises $34 Million; More To Come

Marshall — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:56:40 -0000

While these sums are high for sure, the cynicism in your headline was a surprise coming from someone who writes about scores of profitable companies in other sectors that get by just fine. Only a little imagination is required to see a future where all 3 of the companies you mention here are viable, not to mention Google.

Re: The Race of Also-Rans: French Video Sharing Site Dailymotion Raises $34 Million; More To Come

Marshall — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:31:31 -0000

Is there a 5X exit likely for each of these investments, perhaps not, but I respectfully submit that when we look at the history of this era, sites like Guba and Bolt (got good traffic, then dropped the ball) will be the exception, not the rule. The utility of these services is so powerful that once one is differentiated by traffic (in most cases that's the only differentiator, right?) then I don't think betting on them is nearly as crazy as many jaded, top tech bloggers make it sound. There's a lot of people that watch video online, and there's only going to be a whole lot more in the future. The above sites get, say 10% of the traffic YouTube does - that's a lot! It indicates to me that it's not crazy to think they could get more. Will that traffic equal money? Someday soon, it will. Having a ton of people hanging out somewhere and not knowing how to make money from them is not the kind of problem I'd bet against seeing solved in an industry so full of creative people.

Sorry for the long comment, but I really don't believe any of the above sites can be called also-rans yet, far from it, and I think the industry has a hell of a lot more juice than many people want to give it credit for.

Re: MySpace SVP of Marketing & Content Shawn Gold Leaving

Marshall — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:01:44 -0000

If it turns out to be a Facebook ad network I am going to CRACK UP.

Re: NPR Mobile Strategy Mixes Text With Live And On-Demand Audio

Marshall — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:00:13 -0000

Very curious to try this out and compare it with Public Radio Tuner. That app is awesome, but it does have some performance issues. It feels like most iPhone apps do, though. Either way, sounds like a great job here by NPR - they continue to rock!

Re: WSJ's New Policy: Won't Take Herd Embargoes

Marshall — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:19:48 -0000

Passing, I wasn't excluding TechCrunch from that assertion. And this isn't a case of using brand to get access - this is a case of using brand to get exclusive access.

Re: Twitter

Marshall — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:27:24 -0000